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| La Giralda - Seville - 1985 |
There was a
photograph that I put in a blog some years ago in 2006 (link above) that had a photograph I
wanted to print to show and tell at the upcoming tertulia this coming Wednesday at the Sylvia
Hotel. I downloaded it only to find out it was not of sufficient resolution to
print.
The
photograph in question I took at the bell tower (la Giralda) of the Seville
Cathedral. I went into my two-drawer Travel section and found Uruguay, Brazil,
Mexico, Argentina, Italy, etc and no Spain. I was most upset. I then went into
my family two-drawer filing cabinet and looked there. I thought we (two
daughters and Rosemary) around 2005. There was nothing. Then I looked again and
found the photographs in a filed dated 1985! All the negatives and slides were
there.
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| La Alhambra - Granada -1985 |
Now I must
figure out how to re-file them. Perhaps I will leave them under family and put
an empty file holder called Spain/France in the travel section.
In
photography we have the term “grab shot” this is to take the photograph the
moment you see something you know you have to photograph. The four of us were
on the bell tower (Giralda) and I noticed that the bell was reflected as a shadow on the floor and
that my daughter Alexandra’s shadow was also there. I took the picture with
probably an Asahi Pentax camera loaded with b+w film. In the Spain/Paris file I
found a pristine darkroom print in which I used good paper and process it to be
archival. I scanned the print in my darkroom. The edge is now called a crazy
edge. Back in that ancient century that crazy edge meant:
1. The
photographer used a metal file to file the edge of the enlarger negative file.
No filed negative filed edge could ever be duplicated. It became a sort of finger
print of the photographer.
2. The crazy
border certified that the photographer did not crop the picture with the
enlarger but was the full image taken by the camera.
3. The crazy
border certified that the photograph was printed by the photographer who took
it.
The second
photograph I shot at the Alhambra in Granada.